Do drivers hate bicyclists? US sees an alarming rash of crashes.
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Drivers hate everybody. Driving is a miserable experience that makes people dissociated, stressed, and angry. In my experience, it's especially true of the people who proclaim the loudest that they love driving. Rather, they love some idealized mental picture of what they think driving should be, but never can be. The dissonance sends 'em into a state of fury.
My girlfriend doesn't drive and i drive every day for work. She sees a lot of good in people and when i tell her just every day driving stories or stories about people rear ending me, ahe has a hard time believing me how shitty people are behind the wheel.
people like driving just for the sake of driving, rather than for the sake of doing something else like going to work or getting groceries.
USA Today decided to examine why drivers are killing cyclists and landed on a terrible Both Sides framing. We even have an avid cyclist appearance. This is a horrifically bad way to cover traffic violence.
The part that’s missing is the driver of said car likely just endangered that cyclist’s life. How fucked does one’s perspective have to be to justify sending someone to the hospital or grave because they were running late, going to miss their turn, arguing with a passenger, on their phone, under the influence, etc., etc., etc.?
I suspect the bike was already damaged by the car. I wouldn't throw my undamaged bike.
Real sick of capitalist media pretending property is as important as human life.
Not the hood! What a terrible tragedy...
Drivers hate everyone, even other drivers.
Drivers don't. Assholes do. Some assholes also drive.
I hate headlines like this so much, I bet most people don't give a flying fuck, some understand that every bike = 1 less car in the queue, and then there are the annoying minority hating everything, cyclists included.
"Mentally ill people on the rise" would be a better headline than "more drivers hate cyclists".
It's a headline grabbing dividing way of selling articles, we should be better.
Rant Off/
https://www.wlwt.com/article/facebook-group-nky-hates-bicyclists-causes-some-bikers-to-fear-for-their-safety/23326451
It's been taken down. We thought it was satire at first, but the hate was plenty strong enough.